An Invitation - Come to the table

On Tuesday, we met at German and Karla's house to pray. The invitation was sent out to the kids we are getting to know on the street. "Come and join us for lunch". We started to get ready...we bought chicken, rice, tomatoes, onion, potatoes and garlic at the market. On our walk back to the house we ran into a woman walking her pig to the market to sell....too bad we already bought chicken!! All of us did our part as Karla directed us and we anxiously awaited the arrival of the kids. At last, after 3 hours of anticipation, one of the kids, Rene, arrived. We had hoped for a group of 6 or 8 but joyfully welcomed the one who came to dine at the table with us.

We don't know why the rest did not arrive - perhaps it was the need to work and make enough money for the day; perhaps it was the lack of money for the bus fare; perhaps it was because some decided to get high instead; perhaps......BUT we rejoice and give thanks for Rene and the opportunity to begin to get to know him.